Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.